<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Ignore Lists - Stow</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Stow"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Invoking-Stow.html#Invoking-Stow" title="Invoking Stow"> <link rel="next" href="Installing-Packages.html#Installing-Packages" title="Installing Packages"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This manual describes GNU Stow version 2.2.2 (9 November 2015), a program for managing the installation of software packages. Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following: (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com> (C) 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org> (C) 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net> (C) 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org> Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the section entitled ``GNU General Public License'' is included with the modified manual, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Ignore-Lists"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Installing-Packages.html#Installing-Packages">Installing Packages</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Invoking-Stow.html#Invoking-Stow">Invoking Stow</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">4 Ignore Lists</h2> <p><a name="index-ignore-lists-14"></a><a name="index-ignoring-files-and-directories-15"></a> <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists.html#Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists">Motivation For Ignore Lists</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html#Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists">Types And Syntax Of Ignore Lists</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files.html#Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files">Justification For Yet Another Set Of Ignore Files</a> </ul> <!-- =========================================================================== --> </body></html>